Geraldo Rivera wants to run for the US Senate from New Jersey. Can he beat Booker?

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Veteran broadcast journalist Geraldo Rivera says he’s considering a run for a US Senate seat from New Jersey in 2014.

“I mention this only briefly ... fasten your seatbelt,” he said Thursday on his mid-day radio program. “I am and have been in touch with some people in the Republican Party in New Jersey. I am truly contemplating running for Senate against Frank Lautenberg or Cory Booker in New Jersey.”

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There is a scenario where the GOP might win. It involves a primary fight between the incumbent Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg and Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who has already filed papers to run for the seat.

Senator Lautenberg is 89, and many state Democrats figure it is time for him to retire. But Lautenberg has given little indication he’s going to step down, and every indication is that he’s irritated by what he considers to be Mr. Booker’s presumption.

Booker may need a “spanking” for being “disrespectful,” said Lautenberg in a brief interview with the Philadelphia Inquirer last week.

Polls show Booker ahead at the moment.

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Geraldo might not match up well against Booker in particular, since Booker is just as much a person-of-action as is the action journalist. In 2012 Booker personally saved a woman from a house fire, after all.

Booker has even cut a commercial with Christie spoofing this image. In the short the Newark mayor tells Christie “I got this” as he fixes the governor’s flat tire, helps Bruce Springsteen deal with a missing guitar, and then catches a baby dropped from a state Capitol balcony.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2013/0131/Geraldo-Rivera-truly-contemplating-run-for-Senate.-Could-he-win

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Gerald (Gerry), later "Geraldo" Rivera is a total media #######. He will do well in politics.

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Gerald (Gerry), later "Geraldo" Rivera is a total media #######. He will do well in politics.

Given how openly partisan most talking heads are these days, I'm a little surprised more haven't tried their hand at politics. Hannity, Maddow, they could easily run on a R or D ticket.

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Given how openly partisan most talking heads are these days, I'm a little surprised more haven't tried their hand at politics. Hannity, Maddow, they could easily run on a R or D ticket.

There have been a few, B-1 Bob Dornan, J.D. Hayworth, Al Franken, for example.